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The phrase "a third of humans" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing statistics or proportions related to the human population.
Example: "According to recent studies, a third of humans are affected by some form of mental health issue."
Alternatives: "one-third of people" or "33% of the population".
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The Chlamydia organism, which finally carried off Sam, may be present in as many as half of Australia's koalas – just as it is also present in about a third of humans.
During prenatal development, about a third of humans have a structure like the vomeronasal organ.
Staphylococcus aureus colonises around a third of humans, and is an important cause of infections in both hospital and community.
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"We think our drugs vaporize a third of human diseases in the developed world," David told me.
"We think our drugs vaporize a third of human diseases in the developed world," one executive said.
That compares with 487 protein-coding genes in the same sequence.Other evidence suggests that microRNAs regulate the activity of at least a third of human protein-encoding genes.
The researchers also found the expression of the same glutamate receptor in about a third of human melanoma specimens that they tested.
Nowadays more than 2000 miRNAs have been identified in human, which participate in keeping the balance of gene regulating networks and regulate more than a third of human genes at the post-transcription level (Esquela-Kerscher and Slack 2006).
I mean the plain dark oblivion that rounds out a third of human life.
Estimates of the heritability of human lifespan vary from 10-50% with the most common finding being that about a third of human lifespan may be heritable.
Estimates of the extent of miRNA gene regulation vary from 4% of transcripts in the Drosophila ovary [ 18] to a third of human genes [ 19].
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